Instructions

Try your best to answer the questions above. Type your answers into
the boxes provided leaving no spaces. As you work through the exercise regularly click
the "check" button. If you have any wrong answers, do your best to
do corrections but if there is anything you don't understand, please
ask your teacher for help.

When you have
got all of the questions correct you may want to print out this page
and paste it into your exercise book. If you keep your work in an
ePortfolio you could take a screen shot of your answers and paste
that into your Maths file.

Transum.org

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contains over a thousand free mathematical activities for teachers and
pupils. Click here to go to the
main page which links to all of the resources available.

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Roman Numerals Jigsaw

This is a wonderful activity for someone who does not know Roman numerals. By completing the activity an understanding of the symbols develops and a great sense of achievement is enjoyed.

Answers

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Go Maths

Learning and
understanding Mathematics, at every level, requires learner
engagement. Mathematics is not a spectator sport. Sometimes
traditional teaching fails to actively involve students. One way to
address the problem is through the use of interactive activities and
this web site provides many of those.
The Go Maths page is
an alphabetical list of free activities designed for students in Secondary/High school.

Maths Map

Are you looking for something specific? An exercise to supplement the topic you are studying at school at the moment perhaps. Navigate using our Maths Map to find exercises, puzzles and Maths lesson starters grouped by topic.

Teachers

If you found this activity useful don't forget to record it in your scheme of work or learning management system. The short URL, ready to be copied and pasted, is as follows:

Henry J. Spencer, The Gryphon School, Sherborne

Thursday, May 25, 2017

"I am commenting to show you a wrong answer. Me, my teacher and my friends around me have been trying to solve this equation. We believe that you have your answer wrong and you may need to check it. The question is:2(4y-3)=5(y+6)If you worked out the answer you would know that y=12. Unfortunately, when I submitted that answer, it was wrong. I hope you take this into consideration and I hope I will not find any more problems that I believe are wrong.Your sincerely,Henry J. Spencer."

Transum,

Friday, May 26, 2017

"Thanks Henry for pointing out the error with Level 5 question 2. It has now been corrected. The questions that you see are drawn from a database containing a number of different versions of the question type. One of the versions is chosen each time the page is loaded. I hope you will not find any other errors but please let me know if you do. I am very grateful for the time you took to flag up the mistake. Thank you again."

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Curriculum Reference

Example

Here is an example showing a good
way to solve an equation of this type (Level 2) by thinking of the two sides of the equation
as two sides of a balance. The equation will remain balanced only if
you do the same thing (multiply, divide add or subtract) to both
sides.

Don't wait until you have finished the exercise before you click on the 'Check' button. Click it often as you work through the questions to see if you are answering them correctly. You can double-click the 'Check' button to make it float at the bottom of your screen.

Answers to this exercise are available lower down this page when you are logged in to your Transum account. If you don’t yet have a Transum subscription one can be very quickly set up if you are a teacher, tutor or parent.